So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.